Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program : Overview and Current Issues.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability insurance.

Employment agencies.

Medicaid.

Social security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (41 p), digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 12-R4-1934 in the 2012 issue.

Provides overview of SSA operation of the ticket to work and self-sufficiency program created by Title I of P.L. 106-170, the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, to provide work incentives for disabled recipients of social security disability insurance and supplemental security income benefits. Summarizes legislative history and various provisions of the ticket to work and self-sufficiency program, and provides analysis of program performance and return-to-work barriers encountered by ticket holders and employment networks (ENs). Discusses program-related issues that may be of interest to Congress, and includes appendix with expanded description of EN payment systems. Includes tables and graphs.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Mar. 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program

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